dSLR Photographer's-Mental-Lag

[typo correction]

I've been noticing a quite interesting pattern over the last three decades.
It seems that the most innovative features always appear on P&S camera's
first, film & digital. Only years later do d/SLR owners finally wake-up and
decide they not only want but NEED those features too.

Examples:

Auto-focus first appeared on P&S film cameras. / dSLR owner's now can't
live without it.

Live-View LCD display. / dSLR owner's can't live without it once they
discover its many benefits. Even better if their LCD display is
articulated, opening up many more photography options that they didn't
previously know exist.

Silent Operation / Well, they'll never get this. But they keep trying to
get their cameras quieter. There's just so much you can do to isolate the
noise from that slow slapping mirror and archaic focal-plane shutter that
doesn't move faster than 1/250 of a second over their sensor. They pride
themselves on buying the quietest dSLRs they can find, never realizing that
all P&S cameras are totally silent if you mute the unneeded sound-effects
using a menu option.

Live Histograms / Many wish they could find a way to get this if it's not
already in their dSLR's much-wanted Live View feed.

Shutter-Speed Preview that exists in nearly all P&S cameras' EVF/LCD
displays. / They don't even know what this is, they're forever calling it
viewfinder-lag in their ignorant error, but many want it once they
understand what it's for and how to use it.

Built-in flash on P&S film and digital cameras came first. / They love the
convenience if their dSLR now has one. Even choosing dSLR models based on
their built-in flash output.

Video modes first appeared in P&S digital cameras. / The most expensive pro
models of dSLRs must now have it.

Smaller and lighter cameras. / They keep trying!

Long zoom lenses with wide aperture. / They wish for this all the time so
they don't have to change lenses so often, while always busy missing shots
and getting dust on the sensor, not finding out that all their images are
ruined until they get home. They'll never get the large apertures at long
zoom lengths that can be designed for P&S cameras. Envy doesn't even begin
to describe how this makes them feel and act.

These are just of the few of many features that first appeared on P&S
camera models that dSLR owners either hope to have one day or MUST have
now. P&S cameras will always be at the forefront of innovation and adapting
to more myriad shooting styles and possibilities. It's been this way for
decades.

You'd think that with them wanting so many features for the last several
decades that are already on P&S cameras, film and digital, they'd try
harder in finding those P&S cameras today that rival the images from their
dSLRs. Many P&S cameras do just that, for a long time now.

Oh well. As has been said time and time again, dSLR owners are none too
bright. I guess that's what makes them dSLR owners.